Month: May 2021

Wayne Allen Root has turned into one of my favorite columnists. For those of you who are RINOs or anti-Trumpers you probably will not like what Wayne Allen Root just wrote about, but I loved it. The title of his latest is “The Game Changer . . . “

He starts off:

“Days ago, I was honored to spend time with former President Donald Trump for an exclusive one-on-one interview on my nationally syndicated radio show, “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Radio Network.”

The basic gist of his piece is to have Mr. Trump run for the House of Representatives from a district in Florida that he would be guaranteed to win. The mere act of Trump running for the House would spur voters across the country to vote for Republican candidates. The hoped for result would be a landslide of Republicans voted into the House. I could imagine about 74 million Republican votes nationally, and the House would shift back into Republican hands. Granted this may well happen anyway as Sleepy Joe’s tenure has thus far been uber divisive, and a pinnacle of incompetence.

But here is the coup de grâce . . . drum roll, please . . . Donald Trump would then be elected Speaker of the House. What a hoot that would be!
Just imagine the power Trump would have over the impotent Biden or even the Laughing Kamala, if perchance  Sleepy Joe were to step down and no longer be living in the White House in 2022.

Even though President Trump appeared to show some interest in Root’s idea, only in my dreams would this ever happen. However, just imagine the enjoyment the nation’s 74 million Trump standbys would have, and think about the depression that could ensue with those who finagled, cheated, and lied their way to a 2000 tainted “win” for Sleepy Joe.

What a hoot that would be!

I have long been a proponent of using Ivermectin for Covid, both for prophylaxis and for treatment.

Please see my 3/10/21 essay entitled “Covid tidbits,” and my essay of 3/7/21 entitled, “ RCTs.” … both are still available on my blog site (www.californiacontrarian.com)To me it is still incredible that ivermectin is only being used in a few places worldwide for Covid,, especially when you read about the African dichotomy, which is thoroughly explained in this YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/1yMWYmTl-qI
If I didn’t know better, I would consider the blackballing of ivermectin as a conspiracy, perhaps from the deep state. Hmmm!

ivermectin has been used worldwide for a number of different things, especially in Africa for over forty years. It has a remarkable safety record, and has even been used to treat scabies in young children … again with remarkable safety.

Why in God’s name hasn’t this drug been used for Covid?

Watch this YouTube video, and then ask yourself this same question. Hmmm!

How many of you recognize this name, Zechariah Cartledge? My guess is extremely few as his name will probably never neither be in print in the Main Stream Media nor will it be spoken on TV news. (Oops! He has been mentioned on Fox News multiple times going back to 2019. )

The following is from 2019:

“Zechariah Cartledge, a 10-year-old boy from Florida, is on a mission to support police officers and fallen heroes: one mile and one dollar at a time.

“He dedicates each mile he runs to a fallen police officer, whom he names and shares their story, after saying a quick prayer. Zechariah got the idea two years ago when he ran the Tunnels to Towers 5K alongside police officers and firefighters who were in full gear, in Orlando.

“Zechariah has already run several miles this year in honor of deceased officers, according to his Facebook page, Running for Heroes. The page also contains numerous videos of Zechariah carrying out his goal.

“‘The reason why I wanted to do it tonight is because I am furious about this … the war against police somehow is not going to peace like it just keeps going on. This needs to stop,’ the 10-year-old said.”

That was back in 2019 and Zechariah Cartledge is now twelve years old. He is still at it … doing his 1 mile tribute runs while carrying a Thin Blue Line American Flag.

According to Breitbart on 5/21/21, last week he honored fallen Illinois officer Chris Oberheim by running one mile, which is ten laps around his elementary school track in Florida. Officer Oberheim served 20 years in law enforcement and is survived by his wife and four daughters. Zechariah plans on giving the flag to the Oberheim family.

Breitbart News reported Zechariah went to Tennessee earlier in the month to honor two fallen Knox County Sheriff’s Officers.

Check out the Facebook page … “Running 4 Heroes, Inc.”

Total miles run thus far in 2021 = 138

Total miles run since inception = 915

Reading the news every day tends to depress the average reader. It depresses me. It’s things like this and people like Zechariah that restore my faith in America, and my hope for the future.

I have not ever written about climate change because I do not profess to be an expert in this area and I do have a lot of interest in it. However, I just viewed a video of a presentation by Peter Temple. I had never heard of Peter Temple, so I looked him up.

He is a Futurist, Market Analyst. He helps executives and entrepreneurs understand cycles and how they affect the economy, specific businesses, climate, social mood, trends, and a host of other important aspects of the economic landscape.

He is a marketing/advertising executive, past-president and managing partner in Canada’s largest retail advertising agency. They focus on marketing, presentations, and television-related media. One of the multiple companies that his firm has worked with is an oil company, and so, of course, those that do not agree with his perspective and his theories on history and climate cycles, call him a shill for the oil companies. (FYI: I always get suspicious when one who disagrees with someone resorts to an “ad hominem” attack, instead of arguing and discussing what the other person says.) Hmmm.

Anyway Peter Temple’s entire point is that we should be paying more attention to climate history as history does have a peculiar tendency to repeat itself. He states that the climate pattern has followed cycles for thousands and thousands of years, and shows two impressive cyclical graphs to demonstrate his point.

The first graph is over the last 11,000 years. This demonstrates a sinusoidal pattern of a warm period followed by a cold period followed by a warm period, etc . . . for 11,000 years. According to this graph we are now in the “modern warm period,” and over the next extended climate cycle, it will be getting cooler and drier. In other words based on past historical cycles, the earth will be entering into a period of cooling – not warming.

The second graph is based on the work of Dr. Raymond Wheeler in the early 1900s. Dr. Wheeler and his team of 200 researchers studied climate, and identified major climate cycles over thousands of years back to 600 B.C. Dr. Wheeler felt that these climate cycles recurred in periods of 172 years and 1030 years, and indeed over the last 4000 years, this cyclical pattern seems to be what studies of Greenland Ice Cores also demonstrate. 

Instead of predicting a future period of “global warming,” Mr. Temple is predicting a period of “global cooling” that could last for hundreds of years.

Not to be repetitive, but as I do not consider myself to be someone with a lot of expertise on climate. I am not buying or selling anything here. My suggestion is for each of you to watch Peter Temple’s YouTube video about “172 year climate cycles.”

I predict you will find it very cool . . . no pun intended.

My suggestion is that we, our country, have a summit or a panel, or at least an open discussion on this issue so that everyone can see the facts and make a decision on the veracity of either “global warming,” “global cooling,” or “climate change.” How hard could it be for Fox, CNN, and  CBS to devote two hours for three consecutive nights to this topic? The viewership for this would break records, and anyone who could not view all six total hours on these three nights could access this forever on YouTube.

Today as I was reading some of the news-stories of the day, one thought kept recurring. That thought was similar to a jigsaw puzzle in that it initially involved different pieces that needed to be put together to form something complete.

At first that thought was hazy, and involved “tyranny,” “liberty,” “freedom,”and “government.” With the help of Google, I then pulled up some quotes from individuals much smarter than myself. As there were literally hundreds of quotes, I have pulled out a few that helped me put that jigsaw puzzle together. (I cannot pretend that I am familiar with these wise individuals, but rather concentrated on the wisdom encompassed in their quotes.)

In no particular order:

Edmund Burke, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” 

Maximillian Robespierre, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

Friedrich von Hayek, “Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”

President Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ ”

For the uninitiated the basic subject here involves Covid and the often near tyrannical measures that those in charge used because “they knew best” . . . and of course only “had our best interests in mind.” Here, in no particular order, I am referring to the CDC, Dr. Fauci, the dictatorial governors of many states and their “health professional” lackeys, the teacher’s unions, those in local governments that thought that they somehow had infused knowledge, etcetera. (“Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”)

Think about the following infringements on our individual liberties because there was a an emergency. Stay inside! … No going to a park or to the beach … No going into the ocean … No religious services, even if held outside … “masks required at all times.” Only rarely would anyone verbalize that these measures were unnecessary and over the top.

(“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”)

The Main Stream Media was complicit in all of this. Never once did I hear anything emphasizing that this was a disease that mainly afflicted older individuals or those with risk factors. What I read were things like, “keep college kids in their dorm rooms,” “keep all kids home from school,” “don’t allow three year olds on planes without masks.” (“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”)

Now many are probably saying that at the very beginning of this pandemic, nobody had any concrete knowledge of what to do, but as time went on . . . “come on, man!”  However the lunacy persists, as “those that know best” just will not stop! For example: 

Even those who are vaccinated need to wear masks.

Children at outdoor day camps need to social distance and continue to wear masks! (“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”)

I will finish here with a warning … a quote from Benjamin Franklin, and repeated by Justice Anthony Keneally in my book, “The Keneally Chronicles”:

“Those who give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.”

Approximately one year ago (June 8, 2020 to be exact) I wrote the following to one of my sons-in-law. The letter speaks for itself:

“Dear XYZ,

I may pretend to be a lot of things, but one of them is not a virologist! Ergo, I do not know how/ when/ or why the coronavirus pandemic started.

However, we do know a few things.

– We know that the epicenter was Wuhan. We do not know where the virus initially originated, but we do know where the initial explosion of cases occurred. . . . Wuhan. The market in Wuhan was a more than likely a super-spreader event, and probably the initial super-spreader event.

– We also know that there a virology research lab in Wuhan. In fact that lab is very close to the market in Wuhan. 

So logically there are only two possibilities:

Either the virology lab and the initial epicenter (market) are related . . . or they are not related.

At present, I think it is reasonable to say, “we don’t know,” however if you follow Occam’s Razor, logically one would have to conclude at this point that these two are related. Otherwise one is left with the unlikely conclusion that the proximity of the virology lab to the market is a mere coincidence! Hmmm!

The other thing that causes my suspicion level to go up is the initial behavior of the Chinese. If the virus just happened to have its initial impact innocently in Wuhan, and this was all serendipity, why all the “hush-hush” by the Chinese? Again, using Occam’s Razor, one would have to conclude that some “funny business” was going on.

There is just too many coincidences here to think otherwise, and this has nothing to do with any “political pre-established narrative!”

Sincerely,

California Contrarian

For those of you not familiar with Occam’s Razor, the following is from Wikipedia:

“Occam’s razor, Ockham’s razor, Ocham’s razor, or the principle of parsimony or law of parsimony is the problem-solving principle that “entities should not be multiplied without necessity”, . . . sometimes paraphrased as “the simplest explanation is usually the best one.” 

People who have to use their brains for a living often use this basic principal, because while using this type of logical thinking, one will be right much more often than one will be wrong. Is it fool-proof? Obviously not.

Recently the new hot topic is the “Wuhan leak theory.” For those with short memories, back  in March, 2020 President Trump suggested that this is what occurred. So, one might ask, “Why did it take over a year for the MSM to say, ‘aha!’?”

1. TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) – According to NYT, WAPO, CNN, MSNBC, etc. if Trump said it, it must be wrong . . . or at least they had to tell everyone that without question, “It is nonsense!”
2. Those who work at NYT, WAPO, CNN, MSNBC, etc do not use Occam’s Razor type of thinking because thinking is never actually required in their job.
3. Sleepy Joe has now decided to wake up and look into this!  From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Mr. Biden is trying to cover for his embarrassing closure of the investigation because the dam has finally broken on the evidence that the virus may have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The shame is that it took so long because the suspicious facts have been apparent from the start(WSJ). [FYI: Sleepy Joe thinks that Occam’s Razor is something similar to Gillette . . . perhaps we need to excuse him as he doesn’t actually think very often.]

In a number of places like Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia suits have been filed concerning some of the skullduggery in the Nov., 2020 election. Now, however, all of these suits are “too little, too late,” because they cannot change the results of an election in those states because the results have been “certified.” 

At this point in time, l have two basic questions concerning the results of the 2020 election. 

First, why are the Democrats, just about everywhere, loudly protesting anyone looking into those results? Any Trump claim that the election was fraudulent is always prefaced in the MSM by the word, “false” … it is always “the false claim,” although to the best of my knowledge his statements have never been adjudicated one way or the other. They consistently fall back on the “if you repeat something often enough, the public will believe it to be true.” (Uninformed voters will say, “Since they keep saying ‘false claim’ on the TV news, it must be true.”) If the MSM referred to Trump’s claims as “unsubstantiated,” that would be a step in the direction of truthful reporting. If I were an honest Democratic politician, I would want to know the truth, and if investigations are needed to find out the truth, so be it.

My second question involves the length of time that it is taking to look into the claims of cheating. Many state courts have ducked this issue, but “Why?” The Supreme Court ducked this issue, but “Why.” I actually have a possible answer as to “Why,” but I warn you that nobody will like it.

At this point, a personal story. One of my neighbors is a Superior Court Judge, and I have noticed the elaborate security system that she has equipped her house with. “Why such an elaborate system?”, I asked her. Her answer was quite telling … “As part of my job, I put bad guys away. They do not like that, and so I must protect myself and my family.”

Other than the election “irregularities,” but in the same general area, I have a few issues with the recent Chauvin trial in Minneapolis. The trial not moved to a different venue as requested by the defense … “Why?” The jury was not sequestered … “Why?” A mistrial was not declared after Maxine Waters made threatening and incendiary statements close to where the trial was being held. …”Why?”

My possible answer to all of the above “Why?” questions is the same … perhaps intimidation, some subtle and some not so subtle intimidation.

How hard could it be for “bad guys” to find out where Judge Cahill and his extended family live in the Minneapolis area? How hard could it be for the “bad guys” to find out where the children or the grandchildren of the nine Supreme Court Justices live or go to school? Similarly how hard could it be for the “bad guys” to discover just about everything concerning a district court judge in any of the states with contested presidential election results ?

Now let’s be clear here. I am not saying that any of these judges and justices have chosen to take the easy and safe way out by ducking. I am also not implying that they all prematurely bailed out of the batter’s box because BLM is known to have a very high and hard head-high fastball. I am merely raising this question.

In my book, The Keneally Chronicles, there was an attempt to intimidate a Supreme Court Justice. Did that Justice, Justice Anthony Keneally, cave into the pressure?

Sorry, but you will have to read the book to find out. (BTW: The Keneally Chronicles is available on Amazon.)

Recently I have discovered a new source of comedy masquerading as insanity or perhaps vice-versa. By pure serendipity I happened on something in the Washington Free Beacon . . . “Campus Insanity,” a weekly roundup of the craziest developments at our nation’s 4,000-plus institutions of “higher education.” 

Because I think that humor is important in everyday life, I am going to highlight just a few of these insanities:

A Harry Potter-Themed Stanford Dorm Panics Over “Transphobic, Anti-Semitic, and Racist” J.K. Rowling | The Stanford Review

Resident assistants in a Harry Potter-themed dorm at Stanford put forth a statement to “acknowledge” author J.K. Rowling’s “many transphobic, anti-Semitic, and racist statements.” The renowned children’s author has not been known to make any anti-Semitic or racist remarks but caught flack from leftists last summer for tweeting that differences between the sexes exist.

Professor Investigated for Nine Months After Disagreeing with Anti-Racism Diversity Training | The College Fix

Lake Washington Institute of Technology spent nine months investigating English professor Elisa Parrett, who criticized the school’s mandatory and racially segregated diversity training. The community college placed Parrett on administrative leave after she criticized antiracism for sowing division. The investigation cost taxpayers more than $200,000. 

University of Nevada Says White Students Can’t Live in Minority Dorm Communities for ‘Safety’ of Residents | Young America’s Foundation

The University of Nevada, Reno, said white students are not allowed to fill empty dorm spots in the university’s three minority “Living Learning Communities” for black, indigenous, and Latino students “for the safety of student participants.”

And saving the best for last (two things should guide you here . . . the professor’s first name, and the dead give-away, a hyphenated last name!)

Theology Prof: ‘Dear God, Please Help Me to Hate White People’ | Campus Reform

Mercer University seminary professor Chanequa Walker-Barnes opened a prayer by invoking God’s assistance in helping to “harden [her] heart” and “hate white people.” Walker-Barnes asked God to spare her from white people’s “perennial gaslighting, whitemansplaining, and white woman tears.” 

All pretty funny, huh?

Seriously, folks, how can Mercer University justify a tuition of $37,808 per year and how can Stanford University justify a tuition of 55,473 per year for “educating” such pathetic woke comedians?

As many of you are aware, I have not been pro-mask from practically the beginning of Covid. Besides the aggravation of the constant fogging of my glasses, I have never been convinced that masks were very effective. In fact because of the fogging of the glasses of many mask-wearers, it was apparent to me that if one’s breath could fog up one’s glasses, the coronavirus could easily get beyond, around, under, and through masks. It could not be a one-way street where breath could get out from under the mask, but nothing could get in beyond the mask.

Likewise I felt that the mere wearing of a mask or other even less efficacious facial coverings gave individuals a false sense of Covid protection security. (For example, a bus driver acquaintance of mine who never left his house without his mask and who wore it all day while working still got Covid, and subsequently gave it to his family. How could that be if face masks were truly protective?)

These days with the millions who have been vaccinated in addition to the millions who have recovered from Covid, the CDC has dramatically decreased its recommendations as to when the wearing of a mask is necessary. Why am I still seeing endemic mask-wearing? Has a sizable percentage of the population became addicted to mask-wearing? I can hear you basically saying … “Nonsense, silly boy!”

However I just read a 2017 Article About Mask Addiction in Japan. This article written in April 2017 warns that acculturated masks can become addictive. “People were wearing surgical masks not for the purposes they were intended for…but because they had grown used to living behind the anonymity of a mask.

“While some people used to feel safe or secure when going out with a mask, it has reached a stage where they cannot go out without wearing a mask. That’s how serious it is getting,” said Yuzo Kikumoto, a professional counselor who coined the term “mask dependency” way back in 2009.”

“Mask Dependency!” . . . Wow!

The following you can file under … You heard it here first!

I am going out on a limb here because I have no data yet on this issue, but I will predict that when studied, “mask dependency” will correlate with being a Democrat!

As one travels north past Slippery Rock about an hour out of Pittsburgh on I-79, one gets to Grove City, Pa. which is the home of Grove City College. (I can hear the catcalls of ‘OMG! Who cares about a tiny college in podunk-ville, Pa.’) Actually, Grove City College is routinely ranked as one of the country’s top colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review, to name a few. It advertises itself as a Christian learning and living experience defined by academic excellence and traditional American values. 

Whoa … whoa-cubed! That’s something that one does not read about or hear about in the Main Stream Media these days . . . “traditional American values!” My guess would be that most college students or recent college graduates these days do not have a clue as to what the term, “traditional American values” really means. (Oh well, a topic for another day.)

I heard about Grove City College (GCC) when I read an article by Paul Kengor in Crisis magazine. He is a Professor of Political Science at GCC, and the article is entitled, “In Persona Pelosi,” . . . and it is about you know who.

Professor Kengor points out that he has covered Nancy Pelosi for years, and he has dealt with a long list of egregious remarks from the Catholic congresswoman. That includes the infamous exchange in June 2013 when an annoyed Pelosi told a reporter asking about her defense of late-term abortion, “as a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me.” (For those not familiar with “late term abortion,” please see my 5/18/21 essay on this subject.) Although this might be her most audacious statement yet, her recent statement concerning pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians, including herself, and the reception of Holy Communion, has to rank right up there on the self-righteous politician hypocrisy scale. 

This was Pelosi’s response when recently asked about this: 

“I think I can use my own judgment on that.” 

(To me that’s like asking the wolf about his concerns for the chickens in the hen-house!) 

As Kengor points out: “To Pelosi, neither the CDF nor the Vatican nor the pope nor her bishop nor her priest have the say on whether she receives communion. She does. She alone does.”

Unfortunately, or perhaps to some, fortunately, “her own judgement” will come up at some future judgement . . . the Last Judgement. At that time I would not want to be the lawyer arguing her case.

A much more common, but related, and not talked about issue, has to do with Catholics who vote for politicians who they know to be obviously and unabashedly pro-abortion. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be their lawyer either.